Wall Changer is an automatic wallpaper changer.
You can select images that will be used as wallpaper, download wallpapers from the web, set commands to set wallpaper, and set intervals between wallpaper changes.
There’s two executables: wchangerd and wchangercfg.
wchangerd works in the background and changes the wallpaper at specific intervals.
wchangercfg is a configuration window for adding/removing images to lists, downloading images from the web, changing the intervals between wallpaper changes etc.
Wall Changer is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports wallpaper search pages:
- Pexels.
- Pixbay.
- wallhaven.cc.
- Wallpaper Abyss.
- Flickr.
- Runs under Linux and FreeBSD.
Website: www.nongnu.org/wallchanger
Support:
Developer: Michał Bąbik
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Wall Changer is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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